{"id":194,"date":"2013-11-04T01:52:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=194"},"modified":"2013-11-04T01:53:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:53:10","slug":"misphatim-5771-2010","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=194","title":{"rendered":"Mishpatim 5771 (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Drash for Mishpatim 5771 \u2013 A Recycled Idea, Told in a Different Way<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n

A longer than usual drash and somewhat political<\/p>\n

Next: Some things we said in the 60s<\/p>\n

Keep the faith, baby<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not part of the solution, you are part of the problem<\/p>\n

Different strokes for different folks<\/p>\n

Today is the first day of the rest of your life<\/p>\n

A Song We Listened To \u201cAlice\u2019s Restaurant\u201d<\/p>\n

It recounts a true Thanksgiving Day adventure as a\u00a0protest against the Vietnam War\u00a0draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Thanksgiving, November 25, 1965, the 18-year-old Guthrie and his friend Richard Robbins, 19, were arrested\u00a0for\u00a0illegally dumping<\/a>\u00a0some of Alice’s garbage after discovering that the town\u00a0dump<\/a>\u00a0was closed for the holiday. Two days later, they pled guilty in court before a blind\u00a0judge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fastforward to 1967: Guthrie’s being called up for the draft, and the surreal bureaucracy at the\u00a0New York City<\/a>\u00a0induction center at 39\u00a0Whitehall Street<\/a>.[2]<\/a>\u00a0Because of Guthrie’s criminal record for littering, he is first sent to the Group W Bench, where those draftees wait who cannot be inducted except under a “moral waiver<\/a>“, then outright rejected as unfit for\u00a0military service<\/a> because of this criminal record.<\/p>\n

Guthrie\u2019s advice \u201cIf you\u2019re in a situation like that there’s only one thing you can do and that’s walk into the shrink wherever you are ,just walk in say “Shrink, You can get anything you want, at Alice’s restaurant.”.\u00a0 And walk out.\u00a0 You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he’s really sick and they won’t take him. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. They may think it’s an organization.\u00a0 And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said\u00a0fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out.\u00a0 And friends they may thinks it’s a movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Imagine this<\/p>\n

1)\u00a0\u00a0 If one of us goes home tonight or tomorrow and gives to the HFLA then it is tzedaka<\/p>\n

2)\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0And if three of us do it, they may think it is organized<\/p>\n

3)\u00a0\u00a0 But imagine if each one of us gave to HFLA and wrote to two people we know \u2013 outside of Santa Cruz \u2013 this message<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday [or this last Shabbat if you are writing later in the week] was Shabbat Misphatim.\u00a0 In honor of the great principle of free loans, I encourage you to send a donation, size does not matter, to your local HFLA, and send this message on to two more people, one in your community and one outside\u201d.<\/p>\n

Imagine if we did that. We\u2019d have The Mishpatim Movement.<\/p>\n

And if you don\u2019t want to be part of the movement:\u00a0 This week Chabad sent out a drash about Mishpatim that noted \u201cGive a loan and open the Heavenly Gates\u201d<\/p>\n

Today is indeed the first day of the rest of our lives. And you can begin it by opening the Heavenly Gates.\u00a0 Do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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